death-watch beetle
See also: deathwatch beetle
English
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Noun
death-watch beetle (plural death-watch beetles)
- A woodboring beetle, namely a beetle whose larvae are xylophagous.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, →OCLC:
- Of course they had death-watch beetle at Noseley Abbey.
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Translations
a type of beetle
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